[haiku-commits] Re: r40783 - haiku/branches/features/package-management

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:16:37 +0100

Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2011-03-03 at 23:35:35 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > I think for GCC it makes some sense, as it's a GCC flavor that only
> > produces Haiku executables.
> Huh? Every compiler I know only produces binaries for a single target.
> AFAICS, that's not the reason why one is supposed to add a specific
> hint to
> the version, but it's because we have applied haiku-specific patches
> to
> gcc-2.95.3 that aren't available anywhere else (so the compiler
> behaves
> differently).

True enough, I was mostly thinking about the cross compiler anyway;
there it's nice to know what it is for.

> > I guess the SuSE way would be enough,
> > though, but some sort of designation sounds like a good idea to me.
> Ok, I appended " (Haiku)" in r40802.

Alright, thanks.

Bye,
   Axel.


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